On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 03:16:45PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 08:53:32AM -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > > 4. Under qemu-kvm I created a simple Fedora guest definition. I > > then copied and used a VMware F9 guest with a vmdk file which is > > HWversion=4 and was created under VMware on a SCSI interface disk. > > To make matters even worse, this VMware guest uses the "root" (/) > > partition on a LVM logical volume. Boot the guest up on qemu-kvm > > and it immediately crashes because it cannot find "root" or see the > > logical volumes. > > I'm not really familiar with HWversion in VMWare. We just support > whatever qemu / qemu-img supports, so I suggest trying to do a > conversion using qemu-img (see my previous posting). Another suggestion (from Matt Booth who's not subscribed to this list): Is the right SCSI driver available in the initrd? You should be able to find out what driver(s) are in the guest's initrd using virt-inspector. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
